In preparing for my Sharp Practice games I’ll be running at Historicon, I finished off some animals that I had stashed. Being a sucker for adding small details to my gaming boards, many of these will fit the bill. There’s a hodgepodge of manufacturers here: Reaper, Warbases, Iron Wind Metals, Pulp Figures and the highly recommended farm animal set from Pegasus.

Now that my Cold Wars tasks have been completed for a few weeks, I’ve been leisurely finishing up some unfinished in progress things that have been laying around.

The T-Rex is from Jeff Valent Studios, which I believe is now defunct. I think I bought this at Fall In! in Gettysburg, if that gives you any idea of how long I’ve been carting it around.

These 18th century civilians are from Foundry. I plan on using these for Sharp Practice and Legends of the High Seas.

This group is from Conquest Miniatures and includes a Jesuit Priest, a French de la Marine officer and the Last of the Mohicans set. I did a poor job with Alice – I seem to have captured her likeness “post waterfall”.

West Wind makes this Kubelwagen, but I’m not sure where the driver came from. The SS are mostly Warlord plastics with a metal figure from…Battle Honors maybe…

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At this year’s Historicon I’ll be running two WWII skirmish games using Disposable Heroes II. One scenario is a late war engagement between elements of the US 90th Infantry Division and the 2nd and 3rd SS Divisions.

As I dare not run a convention game with incomplete miniatures, I’m using this as an opportunity to finish my SS platoon that has been in various stages of completion for many years. I’ll be documenting my progress and camouflage painting techniques in a series of posts. This first installment will address the platoon composition, and the figures I have chosen to represent the soldiers/equipment.

I’m using two sources for my order of battle – the German Army book ANGRIFF! from Iron Ivan Games, and the late war German Grenadier list from the Chain of Command rulebook. Here’s my planned unit:

Grenadier Platoon

Platoon HQ

Lieutenant w/MP-40 – Warlord

Staff Sergeant w/MP-40 – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

Private w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

1st Squad

LMG Team

Sergeant w/MP-40 – Victory Force

LMG Gunner w/MG-42 – Warlord

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

LMG Team

Corporal w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

LMG Gunner – Warlord

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

2nd Squad

LMG Team

Sergeant w/MP-40 – Victory Force

LMG Gunner w/MG-42 – Warlord

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

LMG Team

Corporal w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

LMG Gunner – Warlord

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

3rd Squad

LMG Team

Sergeant w/MP-40 – Warlord

LMG Gunner w/MG-42 – Renegade Miniatures

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

LMG Team

Corporal w/Kar-98k – Victory Force

LMG Gunner – Renegade Miniatures

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Ammunition Bearer w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Platoon Support

Sniper Team

Sniper w/Scoped Kar-98k – Warlord

Spotter w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Panzerschreck Team

Gunner w/Panzerschreck – Warlord

Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Flamethrower Team

Gunner w/Flamethrower – Warlord

Assistant w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Recon Team

Sergeant w/MP-40 – Warlord

LMG Gunner w/MG-42 – Warlord

LMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Private w/Kar-98k – Warlord

MG-42 HMG

Sergeant w/MP-40 – Warlord

HMG Gunner w/MG-42 – Warlord

HMG Loader w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Forward Observer

Radioman w/Kar-98k – Warlord

Medic

Medic – Warlord

7.5cm le IG.18

le IG.18 w/3 Crew – Warlord

7.5cm Pak 40

Pak 40 w/3 Crew – Crusader

I’ll also be adding in some various figures with panzerfausts and pioneer equipment.

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I have a new 28mm WWII Polish Campaign project I’m starting and I needed to clean off my workspace. This group of “stuff” has been sitting around partially finished, so I spent some time completing it. There are some pre-paints in here – some I repainted, some I lacked the motivation to update, so those were just rebased.

A few months ago I played my first game of Malifaux and enjoyed it enough to pick up a box set. I decided to go with the Guild as my faction as they seem to fit my playing style, and Sonia Criid as my master based purely on the models in her box set. I really enjoyed these plastics. They went together without issue and painted up well.